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Legends Of The Fall (seen it before though)
The Words
Erin Brockovich
Resident Evil: Extinction
Master And Commander
The Whistleblower
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That will be fun if you get 6 different people telling you 6 different films!!
Dont ask us FB, - we dont know what mood youre in!!!
My answer would be none, get the Wild Bunch instead!
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My answer would be none, get the Wild Bunch instead!
What he said! Right on, BillCarson...
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Do you suspect that FB has probably already watched two films from that list since he posted his conundrum??
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These were all films appearing on various Norwegian television channels tonight, so I'm guessing he used his recorder skillfully. I didn't see any of them myself, though. I hate watching films with commercial breaks.
Well, I ended up seeing none of them, LOL! I don't have a recorder by the way, and I have kind of gotten used to commercial breaks. It's ok for finding a snack in the kitchen or going to the bathroom. :-)
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Jan 25, 2015 - 9:35 AM
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One of things that a lifetime (I'm now in my mid-fifties) of watching TV in the US has done to me is make me utterly despise commercials and bitterly resent the endless bombardment of what is essentially bullshit messaging that advertisement is. When you really look at it, it's infuriating because basically you're being talked to as if you're either an idiot at best or a fool at worst. But, thank goodness for the DVR and the ability to scan through or skip entirely commercials, especially now that there's more commercials than ever before. I rarely, if I can DVR it, watch TV in real time anymore. It used to be that a network so-called "1-hour drama" was actually 52 minutes of program and the rest commercials. We're now down to about 42 minutes of program (often less) with twenty minutes or more of commercials per hour. As a viewing experience, it's really intolerable. Again, thank goodness for DVRs, and as for bathroom breaks and such, bless the pause button.
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Jan 25, 2015 - 9:45 AM
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One of things that a lifetime (I'm now in my mid-fifties) of watching TV in the US has done to me is make me utterly despise commercials and bitterly resent the endless bombardment of what is essentially bullshit messaging that advertisement is. When you really look at it, it's infuriating because basically you're being talked to as if you're either an idiot at best or a fool at worst. But, thank goodness for the DVR and the ability to scan through or skip entirely commercials, especially now that there's more commercials than ever before. I rarely, if I can DVR it, watch TV in real time anymore. It used to be that a network so-called "1-hour drama" was actually 52 minutes of program and the rest commercials. We're now down to about 42 minutes of program (often less) with twenty minutes or more of commercials per hour. As a viewing experience, it's really intolerable. Again, thank goodness for DVRs, and as for bathroom breaks and such, bless the pause button.
Don't forget constant superposed promos for the station while the program is playing, the story stopping so the actor can sell you a product, or commercials that try to mimic the actual show between breaks fooling you into thinking you are back to the program.
And I thought things got bad when they started to put their giant logos on the screen during the entire run of the program.
If you watch sports, everything, every square inch has a company logo or advertising. Now every other word out of a sports announcers mouth is a corporate plug as they give play by play.
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It's a funny old world. 
